C What’s On: The Criterion Channel’s September 2020 Lineup
Summer is winding down and the weather is beginning to cool with it–thank goodness. We had the excuse of staying indoors in our air-conditioned ...
Tag: Westerns
News
Ennio Morricone has died
Legendary Italian musician and composer Ennio Morricone has passed away today, having broken his femur in a fall last week and fallen into ...
News
Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon financed at Apple
It’s been known for awhile that Martin Scorsese was looking to follow up his titanic mob tragedy The Irishman with another true-to-life American ...
Quentin Tarantino is bringing Bounty Law to television
One of the many storylines in Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-nominated Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood involved a show called Bounty Law, a western which starred ...
Reviews
Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 8 – The Redemption
When looking at the individual episodes of a television show, especially with a property so carefully-managed like Star Wars, it’s hard to find ...
Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 7 – The Reckoning
After episodes of world-building, character-building, and who-knows-what-else, The Mandalorian season one finally rounds back to the inciting incident for the show. I’ve been ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 6 – The Prisoner
One of the clear strengths of The Mandalorian, especially in the earlier episodes, is that the eponymous character is not perfect—far from it. ...
Reviews
Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 5 – The Gunslinger
Generally, I abhor the term “filler” when it comes to television. Even when an episode doesn’t make too many strides in long-term plot ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 4 – Sanctuary
If anyone watching The Mandalorian had somehow missed that this show was a Western, here is an episode that is pretty blatant with ...
Reviews
Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 2 – The Child
So this is the kind of show The Mandalorian will be, eh? After an intriguing series premiere, the second episode of this Star ...
Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 3 – The Sin
It has been hard to see most of the Star Wars stuff in the Disney era to be nothing more than homages to ...
Reviews
Recap: The Mandalorian (Season 1, Episode 1)
Star Wars was never meant to be a giant pop culture phenomenon, nor was it envisioned as a prime example of the capitalist ...